A selection of pics for my last post of the year.Pretty much examples of what happens in my classes. Lots of "points" and graphic designs all go together to make stunning quilts. (My apologies to Lesley's sister - I've forgotten her name). Well done to all my students and I look forward to seeing some of you again next year. I'll be at Material Obsession for a couple of dates early next year which is really exciting for me. Ring the shop if you're interested in a class where you'll have a lot of fun attacking a technique you might have been avoiding unnecessarily. It's quite easy when it's broken down into bits and your friends will think you are so clever - even tho it's just about "sewing on the line". Merry xmas to you all and I hope santa bring lots of surprises! Lesley Kathy Lesley's sister Lesley's sister again Rosemary Judy Pam Jo Sue's quilt - Suzanne as the prop! Margaret
This is Ulrike’s stunning New York Beauty quilt and she said it took her 10 years to complete this top! It is made with all batik fabrics and batik backing. The blocks and border were all paper pieced and I love the blocks put on an angle creating stars in the sashing. The whole quilt is stitched in the ditch which took the most work and then I rolled it back and added the quilting designs. I did the same feather in the outer curve in all the blocks, added pebbles to some of the arcs and loops to others. It took me a while to figure out what to quilt in the sashing but finally came up with the petal curl design the fit in the space nicely. I have lots of pictures to share! The batting is Quilters Dream Blend and the threads are So Fine. When I posted a picture of the quilt top last week I had a lot of questions about stitch in the ditch and what threads so here is what I used. So Fine #456 is the magic gray green that I used on all the blocks, it blended very well with all the colors. I matched thread with the two purples in the sashing for that design element as I wanted the thread to blend in on the sashing. I also used a light beige for SID around the outer border spikes. When I stitch in the ditch I don’t always stitch in the ditch side. Depending on the thread I’m using and the final look I’m going for I sometimes will stitch on the high side of the ditch to keep the thread in the same color fabric as the thread. I did this in the outer border in the light beige fabrics as I wanted the colour spikes to really pop! But in the blocks themselves I just stitched on the low side of the ditch as I was quilting across so many colors it didn’t matter what color of fabric I was stitching in. Here is a better look at the thread I used. There were a few spots on the blocks where I switched to the light beige thread as the blocks had a very light background. And in these blocks I stitch on the high and low side so I stayed in the light fabric like I did in the outer border. So for me there is no hard fast rule about stitching in the ditch, I do what looks right to my eye. Also in this next picture you can see where I strayed from the side I was on and stitched in the darker colour, this happens and I don’t panic about it because when you look at the quilt as a whole you never see that! There were only a few times on this quilt where I was not happy with my stitching and picked out a line or two. So don’t stress too much when your stitching in the ditch, just take your time and don’t be over critical of it.
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1880s pieced quilt, unknown maker, Texas"New York Beauty" is my favorite quilt pattern. I acquired my first one in 1989 from Shelly Zegart. It was a beautiful, 1850s red, white and green quilt with ch
All the buzz about Bill Volckening’s soon-to-be-released book New York Beauty, Quilts from the Volckening Collection, published by Quiltmania in France, has inspired me to revisit the New Yor…
This tutorial is part of the New York Beauty Quilt Along. To see schedule and tutorials for all 10 blocks in
New York Beauty - Freie Pattern von Ula Lenz.
It’s done! Borders quilted, trimmed, bound, hanging sleeve added. Here’s the finished piece: It’s been an interesting challenge working on this quilt. I’ve enjoyed trying to…
My first block for the Sorbet quilt from the book 'New York Beauties and Flying Geese' by Carl Hentsch, made in Tula Pink fabrics.
Definition of Paper Piecing - Quilting technique in which a design is printed onto paper and fabric pieces are stitched together on the paper for accuracy. I'm not very experienced at paper piecing. I have a tendency to not use a large enough piece of fabric to cover the foundation area I'm working with! So when Karen Neary from Sew Karen-ly Created was asking for pattern testers on a pattern using a New York Beauty block I volunteered. I can't show you the completed project yet, but it turned out great!!! It's amazing to me how a block that starts out with this component, ends up looking like this?
While you're waiting for the Inklingo Mystery clues, we thought it would be fun to show you what happens when you mix the NY Wheel shapes with the shapes in the 3 Inklingo New York Beauty shape collections.
I finished making the four wonky New York Beauty blocks for my homework project. I did not enjoy piecing these as much as I enjoyed the other wonky blocks I've made. The only real difference is that these are foundation pieced and the others were not. So maybe that is why I didn't enjoy these as much. I have put my blocks together. I am thinking about what kind of border this needs, if any. So I haven't squared this up yet because I don't know what my next step will be. My sewing time is up for today so that will have to wait for another day. I also cut up some of the fabric I was given recently. I have two charity quilts cut out that will be Leader and Ender projects. The Clifford quilt. Just from today's sewing session, I pieced about two-thirds of the Clifford squares to short red rectangles. At this rate I will have the top done in no time! The Winnie the Pooh quilt. And a Goldie picture. A cats favorite place to lay is on whatever quilt you are working on! These are the fabrics for my Wonky NY Beauty blocks.
While you're waiting for the Inklingo Mystery clues, we thought it would be fun to show you what happens when you mix the NY Wheel shapes with the shapes in the 3 Inklingo New York Beauty shape collections.
This tutorial is part of the New York Beauty Quilt Along. To see schedule and tutorials for all 10 blocks in
The fastest way to create your own New York Beauty block is on the PatchDraw Pieced worktable. Below shows you how to make a standard star. Use these techniques to create variations. Setting up the w
Create a new quilt design by mixing and matching your favorite 9"-square blocks. These patterns include traditional piecing and appliqué techniques.
It's finished! Or is it? The whole thing is 15.5" square. I'm loving it, but am thinking about setting it on point, which would make it 21" or 22". Maybe later I'd applique something onto the corners? Please share your thoughts! This is for the Dallas Modern Quilt Guild round robin quilt along. I give someone in my hive this center, and each hive member adds a border a month. I won't get it back until it's finished in June or July, then it's mine to keep :D www.drkornea.blogspot.com
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This tutorial is part of the New York Beauty Quilt Along. To see schedule and tutorials for all 10 blocks in
With pointy triangles and circles a lot of you probably will think this is a hard block. Don’t despair, foundation piecing is coming to your rescue – at least for the pointy triangles! …
GIVEAWAY IS OVER, THANKS! Today, I have the privilege to share with you a new quilt book by Andie and Kelly called "Modern designs for CLASSIC QUILTS"! Love...love....love...this book! Everything about it, from content....to photography....to techniques....to picture tutorials...and of course the fantastic quilts and quilt patterns!! I've known Andie through blogging before her book writing journey. Her blog was one of the first I followed and I liked it because she is a very real in her writing. Well.... apparently Andie likes my longarm quilting skills and asked if I would quilt a couple of quilts for a "project" she was working on....a project that had to do with a future book! No pressure for me, none what so ever! Ha! ;o) This spider web quilt is called "Effie's Web". ..and it's a beauty! I loved quilting it up! This New York Beauty quilt is called "Midtown Girl". I really love how this one turned out! These are only a couple of many awesome quilts in Andie and Kelly's book and to celebrate with them I'm having a book GIVEAWAY!! Anyone is welcome to enter the giveaway and staying on the theme of Classic Quilts....Answer this question for the Giveaway: What "Curved" classic quilt or block would you like to see done Modern and easier the Quick Curve Ruler way? Have fun and good luck! The Giveaway will end tomorrow night. ~Jenny~
Hi all, This post is a little late. But better late then never. :) New York Beauty…. I think I am going to be making one of these now. I thought for this one, I would go a little more in de…
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Hey Everyone! Welcome to my week for this fun quilt along! I'm not going to lie. I've never done paper piecing before. I was intimid...
Ever since I first started quilting I have always loved the look of the New York Beauty block but have been a little intimidated by the comb...
This month's Ambassador Challenge for Island Batik is sponsored by one of our industry partners, Aurifil thread. We were sent a selection of weights and colours in our Ambassador box back in January, and an additional packet of thread arrived later this spring. It included these 3 spools of 40, 28, and 12 weight to be used in our challenge. Our instructions said, "Fabric is your canvas and Aurifil thread your paint! Create a one of a kind art quilt or project with Aurifil thread." This project took a great deal of thinking. Normally, we design to showcase the fabric but this time the thread needed to take centre stage. We had been sent cuts of solid colour batiks, and I decided to use the plain white as my background. I printed some New York Beauty blocks from EQ8 on plain white paper and started colouring in doodles with a box of markers to see if I could make this work. We all know if you can draw it, you can stitch it, so I pulled some of the same colours from my thread stash and set to work. This is my working sketch from EQ8; the blocks are drawn to 6". The only unappealing part of this project was tracing the block outlines onto my fabric. I wanted to get stitching, and this was going to slow me down!! My solution was to cut both freezer paper and the white batik into 9" x 12" pieces, and iron the freezer paper to the back of the fabric. It was then trimmed to 8-1/2" x 11" and fed through my printer. It was a super easy (lazy!) way to transfer the lines. I printed one block first as a test and did this much stitching before I decided it was going to work. (I'm not big on practicing!) The freezer paper was removed from the fabric and the blocks were joined with 1/4" seams as per regular patchwork. I used my favourite Hobbs wool batting for the middle, and another layer of white batik on the back. My bobbin was loaded with 50 weight Aurifil in 2024 white. To say this was fun is an understatement! I changed my needle as often as my thread, opting for a size 12/80 for my 50 weight, a 14/90 topstitch for the 40 and 28 weights, and a 16/100 topstitch for the 12 weight. The 12 weight thread fills in beautifully, even with just rows of straight stitching. The project took about 2 weeks to stitch, and I loved adding new bits every day. Below you can see how fine the 50 weight (purple) used in the swirl inside the spike, appears next to the 12 weight (black). For the white background bits, I simply stitched feathers in white 50 weight. I toss my emptied Aurifil spools into a container, so I fetched two to use as finials. They slid onto each end of a 3/8" dowel for the perfect finishing touch. In all, I used 26 different colours and 4 different weights of cotton thread. Thank you to Aurifil thread, Island Batik, and Hobbs Batting for supplying the products used in this challenge.
Hello A quilt I've always wanted to make is a New York Beauty and this week I decided to make a start. These blocks were designed by Donna Duquette and I found them as a free download on the internet. There are lots of free patterns and tutorials out there. The main fabrics I'm using for this quilt are a selection of 18 fat quarters called Stonehenge by Linda Ludovico. They are gorgeous and bright and I'm mixing them with batiks. I like doing the foundation piecing, that's good but I am not so keen on the curved seams. I am trying to be as neat and precise as I can but kept chopping some points off. I don't know how many times I sewed and unpicked some of the seams in this block. Still not happy with it so decided to switch fabrics and PRACTICE. This is a block before its sewn together. Another one done - curved seams going ok now. My DH and DD did not like these blocks - say they are too busy but I rather like that. A few more and I think they would make a pretty quilt for a little girl. In the same pile as the New York beauty patterns I found these foundation pieced Mariners Compass patterns. I had printed them ages ago. They are from Quilting on the Square but I can't remember if it was a blog or a website I got them from and I cannot find it again to share the link with you. I used Blocks 1,2, and 3 but can only find the links to these blocks: Block 1 Block 12 I used my Stonhenge fabrics for these and I love how they turned out. I may mix these 12" blocks with the 8" New York beauty blocks - undecided yet - think I will just see what happens as I go along. Playing with layouts now.... Hope you will come back and follow my progress. Enjoy your weekend Rhianon.
MidSummer FPP Patchwork Quilt Block Pattern This digital pattern includes templates in 100% original size to print out and cut out for a foundation paper piecing block, which consists of four different, combinable sub-blocks in the style of the popular New York Beauty block motifs. The MidSummer block was inspired by the warming sun in midsummer Scandinavia, which never completely sets but is just above the horizon and bathes the landscape in warm yellow light. The block size is perfect for an unusual pillow. This block instruction is included in German (_DE) and ENGLISH (_ENG)! Finished block size: Four different sub-blocks measuring 8" x 8". INCH: 16“ x 16“ with ¼“ seam allowances. Materials for a 16" x 16" block: * Dark grey background fabric: 10“ x 10“ * Medium grey background fabric: approx. 8" x 42" (fabric width) * 16 yellow/orange fabric strips: each approx. 6“ x 1¼“ Basic knowledge of the foundation paper piecing technique is required. There are many good tutorials on YouTube to get you started. You should also have good knowledge of curve sewing. The MidSummer block offers a wide range of design options and is ideal for fabric scraps and also looks good in a combination of patterned and plain fabrics. Or try a monochrome version... Do you have any questions? Or do you need the templates in other sizes? No problem, I can help. Just contact me by email: anke.calzada [!at] pasacana.com. Have fun sewing! About the PDF block pattern: The quilt pattern offered is a digital pattern in PDF format. After purchase, you will receive an email from Etsy with a link to download the PDF document to your computer. Alternatively, you can use the download link under "Purchases" in your Etsy profile. You can print the pattern on letter or A4 paper. This quilting pattern is subject to copyright. All rights reserved. The pattern and all its components may only be reproduced for your own private and non-commercial use. If you would like to use the pattern in a course, please contact me in advance. Commercial reproduction of my instructions for sale is expressly prohibited.
Test block done with various scraps. Please disregard the strange seams and so ;) And these colours will definitely NOT be the ones I choose, even though I like them.
After leaping around the line-up, we return to Block #2, but instead of the more traditional sew-it-in-rip-it-out, it’s made with freezer paper. Apparently this method is the hot new tutorial…
